Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has warned major technology companies such as Facebook and Twitter to do more on the issue of “hate speech,” or face fines and greater regulation.

Breitbart – Talking to the BBC ahead of the South by Southwest (SXSW) technology festival in Austin, Texas, Khan said that companies must be “chivvied and cajoled to take action.”

“We have evolving economies, which means we should have evolving regulations,” he said. “For too long politicians and policymakers have allowed this revolution to take place around us and we’ve had our heads in the sand.”

He went on to reference German hate speech laws, put in place by Angela Merkel in response to growing resentment at her open-door migration policy, with companies now facing fines up to 50 million euros.

Khan also reiterated his opposition to President Donald Trump, claiming that Trump’s decision to retweet a member far-right activist group Britain First had led to increased levels of abuse directed at him.

Many were quick to point out that while Khan is so focused on cracking down on speech that he deems offensive, actual crime in his city is at a record high. Since his election, terror attacks, homicide, gun crime, knife crime, rape, burglary, and even “hate crimes” have skyrocketed.

“President Trump has lots of followers and some of them have shown (negative) interest in me,” he said. “I’m a reluctant participant in any ‘verbal fisticuffs’ between the President of the USA and me. But I’ve got a responsibility as the Mayor of the most diverse city in the world to speak up for my (Muslim) residents.”

Khan’s proposals fall in line with his wider approach of cracking down on “hate crimes” while levels of violent crime (especially by Muslims) continue to soar. In recent years, local police have arrested dozens of people under hate crime legislation, usually on suspicion of speaking against radical Islam.

His proposals are also likely to receive approval from the European Union, an organization that he avidly supports, who last week ordered social media companies to delete content it considers “illegal” within an hour of its posting.

While liberal-run tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google have already been exposed for censoring conservative and anti-Islam content, Khan has demanded that they take their suppression even further or face massive fines and stiff regulation by global entities, according toFox News.

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One must wonder…just how and the hell does a mayor of a city, even a city the size of London, England. have the authority to make such assertions…that HE has the power to dictate to these social media sites what they can and can’t do…?
I find that odd.
And at the 1:43 time in the video, does this asshole actually say he’s “worried about the ‘equality of WOMEN?’ ” YES, he actually said THAT!

khan is after a muslim uprising, beheadings more rapes more crime. the threat is to soon start beheading Jews. He thinks because they are Jews the rest of us will not care,Khan you are wrong, remeber once you start that this society will go into chaos,total breakdown of law, which will be the start of a civil war.
We know that the police are just foot pads of the wealthy, but then their is the military, yes some will fire on the people but many will not, its no longer the 1930 s , when under orders from Churchill they shot the hunger marchers.
The USA is to far away, Russia is not, I would not care if its a british rifle or a Russian one, And remember the Russians do not k like you.

The Muslim, even when called ‘moderate’, can never long keep themselves from displaying the Islamic herd mindset that must require everything (and everyone) in submissive to Islam. This major of London needs some time in the Tower to consider the actual meaning of freedom of speech. A freedom that does protect those who speech out against Islam – AND the never ending need to force Islam down everyone’s throats.

NO MUZSLIME can stand the TRUTH, ESPECIALLY when it pertains to IZSLIME. I really do look foreward to the day things break down to the extent that this pile of camel dung mayor is simply drug out and hanged. ALL his supporters need to be on that list too. They should be removed by any means available. Herding them onto pig hauling barges would be one of my most desired methods, those could be dragged to sodomarabbidia or if they sank on the way, oh well.

Over the weekend the UK illegally detained, arrested and imprisoned for 3 days Brittany Pettibone an American youtuber, and Martin Sellner, Austrian Identitaire leader. His crime: he was intending to speak at Speaker’s Corner on Freedom of Speech (instituted in 1876) and Her crime: intending on interviewing Tommy Robinson. Today, Lauren Southern, another conservative youtuber was detained and ejected from the UK while trying to cross from Calais France on a bus.

In the name of Freedom of Speech, we must endure Sadiq Khan opining in Austin Texas, threatening tech companies encouraging them to suppress speech. This from the guy who said, “Terrorism – get used to it”.

Lol! That was hilarious to watch pipsqueek Khan call himself a “useless sack of shit”! Hahahaha
His excuse of “hate speech” is to censor those against Islamic takeover. Social media needs to remain free. No censorship! If Khan, Muslums & leftists don’t like it, don’t get on social media where free thought reins.
If the government wants to keep their citizens from exchanging free thought, then be like China & ban google, Twitter, etc. If they want to be Shariah, then go Shariah. Why pretend to be free?

No need for that. There are millions of Brits who love their Country and loathe what has happened. We were duped for decades by traditional MS political parties who were all really Globalists masquerading as something else. Brexit was the first real meaningful oppo to make a stand. The result was everything. We are now facing severe challenges to get this completed as we wanted. Had Trump fallen short believe me you would not be so quick to chide others. If Mad Bitch Clinton had gotten in you may well have been finished !!I
People ARE wising up, despite free speech restrictions, media bias and left wing loony educational fuckwits.
Add to that a rapid demise in Church attendances, and Islam has flourished. There is real anger simmering just beneath the surface. We shall see.

Des, what we fear about the UK, is that there doesn’t seem to be a really strong right wing party on the rise. I think For Britain is the only one now. But they need to get the momentum that the newly elected right wing parties in Austria and Italy had created before a major election. None of the traditional candidates there will do the job. You need your own Trump and/or a strong anti-Muslim immigration party, with that issue being the main one for the platform.

That said, seeing what the UK (with Muslim like Mayor Khan) is doing to anyone who speaks out against Islam, with border officials even banning foreigners who are known for their anti-Islam/conservative views, I don’t see much hope in the near future. Please tell me I’m wrong. I would like to be.

I have a British acquaintance who follows the liberal/left wing parties in England and is definitely a left wing sympathizer.

According to him…

The people who voted for Brexit, according to his statistics, were mostly older people over the age of 40/45, which I believe to be fact.
And the younger crowd who DID vote, for the most part, voted against Brexit…and apparently, many young people who had the right to vote, didn’t…and if they had come out to vote in larger numbers, Brexit would have been defeated…or so the story goes…
Sadly, I believe this to be true…the stupidity of the young idealist these days, {2018} makes the young idealists in my day, {the mid to late 1960s} look like geniuses in comparison.
If these young ‘uns don’t wake up and see the light…they are the ones that will be deciding the future direction of their country,

They will be the ones who will vote for the status quo…so getting a strong right wing candidate to defeat this kind of mindset will be almost an impossibility…IMNSHO.

Hmmmm…wasn’t that why the colonies fought the Revolutionary War? Perhaps it’s time that the Brits fought one of their own. Fight or submit. I don’t think that our revolution centered on church attendance as much as the church was the stronghold where people could speak freely. If people that cherish their freedoms don’t speak out, even under threat of persecution, they deserve to be nothing less than sheep. I am more than done feeling empathy for them. Stand up! Man up! Or shut up!!